[cwhiz]

The US is a free country. China is an authoritarian dictatorship.

The most alarming thing to me is the public appetite for authoritarian policies.

[4gotunameagain]

I mean, you're not wrong about China and authoritarianism, but calling US free at this point I think is a mild exaggeration. Corporatocracy might be more apt

[bmitc]

You totally underestimate the amount of influence and propaganda enacted by corporations and the government in the U.S.

Secondly, why is this an excuse to totally fail at handling the pandemic and to let the economy fail?

[cwhiz]

Always err on the side of freedom and individual liberty, always.

[jnxx]

And Taiwan?